skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hamas has been in power since 2006 and had reeducated the youth akin to what the hitler youth did. Its no surprise many tow the company line. Majority of people in gaza are under 18 where all they know is that sort of indoctrination.
But to push back, if you’re talking about a 5 minute task, that you’re using once every few months, a free trial timed the way you are asking, might mean you never end up needing to purchase a license. I understand that that is useful for you, but that isn’t exactly good for someone trying to sell a piece of software. (I understand you also gave usage based examples, but even in those scenarios (which require additional work to code for trial versions, versus a pure time-lock), there is always going to be someone who says “5 saves isn’t enough” or whatever the metric is).

> The idea that, as a consumer, I'm going to sit down and fully evaluate a piece of software over the course of 7/14/30 consecutive days to then make a purchasing decision is bizarre.

Maybe it’s my past life as a software reviewer (and current life as someone frequently asked about my assessment/opinion on apps), but for consumer software (SaaS, especially for business like what OP article is about, I think is different), I really don’t think this is that bizarre.

To me, a trial is really instructive because if I’m finding myself opening or using an app frequently during the trial, that’s a good indicator I’ll get value out of the application. Similarly, if I did a trial in January for one task, then came back to do that same task again in May and the trial is expired, it’s a good way for me to evaluate if it makes sense for me to buy a license or not. There are some programs I use two or three times a year that I purchase because it is useful enough for that one task, but there are others that I use infrequently enough to try to seek out other options. A time-based trial, for me, is a good forcing function to determine if I’m actually going to use the program.
Pokémon Go players are altering public map data to catch rare Pokémon
Regarding Apple specifically, no, I don't believe they have the fabs to support that scale. Bing chat says Apple themselves manufactures the M2 chip but it must be hallucinating, I strongly doubt they have <5nm manufacturing capability in house. Personally assume that pretty much every <10nm process chip is made by TSMC but I'm not a semiconductor professional and not really qualified for this kind of strategic forecasting. TSMC themselves have tried to diversify manufacturing across the globe but at least in the USA it has been more or less a failure [0]

Maybe Apple will try to rekindle that partership with ARM, or maybe they've diversified enough that they can try to make something with old TSMC fabs in Vietnam, assuming the war doesn't engulf them too, but I didn't think any sub 10nm stuff was being made outside of Taiwan.

The invasion is more or less a certainty in the next few years, though. I am much more sure about that than any prognostications about Apple's response to the invasion

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/tsmc-delays-us-c...
I checked and seems to be just Microphone (or other audio) input w/ QuickTime when recording sceengrab videos or recording just audio.
With the restriction that it has to be represented in human-friendly text.

JSON’s a crazy-bad serialization format, too, for that matter. It doesn’t even know what a damn integer is.
Spending an afternoon in the Sizewell control-room simulator
Datascript: Immutable database and Datalog query engine
> Humans have rights. They get to do things that businesses, and machine learning models, or general automation, don't.

So is that a yes to my question?

If humans are allowed to do it for commercial purposes, and it's entirely about human versus machine, then why did you say "Using copyrighted content for commercial purposes should be a violation" in the first place?

> Just like you can sit in a library and tell people the contents of books when they ask,

You know there a huge difference between describing a book and uploading the entire contents verbatim, right?

If "tell the contents" means reading the book out loud, that becomes illegal as soon as enough people are listening to make it a public performance.

> but if you go ahead and upload everything you get bullied into suicide by the US government[1]

They did that to a human... So I've totally lost track of what your point is now.
I'm not sure whether there have been any pro-Palestine or even simply "anti-war" protests that were properly registered, not disrupted and not dissolved by the police but I guess it depends on your definition of "legally".

I would say in practice it's very difficult to have any protest opposing Israel's actions in Gaza without a high risk of ending up in a place where the police decides to dissolve it. But I think in practice the two biggest reasons for that are a) the topic is likely to attract protestors who decide to express opinions that are illegal (or are deliberately interpreted that way) and b) most protests tend to be dissolved by the police eventually because even ones that follow all the rules usually spin off or feed into spontaneous protests that don't.
Seems kind of like a submarine article. Without knowing what this product/service is, it's impossible to know whether a 14 day free trial is appropriate. I don't care to spend the time learning what it is, and without knowing that it's hard to tell if this advice is relevant to other types of products.

I also found this data point to tend to indicate that this testing/experimentation was not especially rigorous:

> out those that did [ask for an extension] and those that didn't, my conversion rate was higher when they did ask for one.

My first thought was that there is selection bias among people who ask for an extension. People who are pretty sure it's not a useful tool for them aren't going to take the time to reach out.
Wait how was the story again with Ballmer and the Iphone?
A single giant organization, or a single-digit number of megacorps in the space, will have lobbyists who are on a first-name basis with every member of the appropriate congressional committees and relevant executive agencies.
> a war had real world consequences for people on the ground

no need to point obvious things

> not only Catholics were targeted

In case everyone were targets, and not just separatists - then it's closer to civil war. It only shows how cruel Brittish were (or still are), and all the double standards with regards to Israel.

> while citizens of Northern Ireland are British by birth they were also entitled by birth to Irish citizenship after 1956.

Granting citizenship to people in breakaway separatists regions is the strategy employed by Putin. Russia first grant them citizenship, and then uses this as a pretext for military invasion in order to protect their newly acquired "citizens".

Obviosly, Republic of Ireland doesn't employ this tactic, but granting citizenship to foreign people in confict areas is still problematic.
Journalism as it currently stands is not worth saving.

Competition for clicks has led to editorial policies focusing on division and conflict, whilst at the article level sensationalism - especially on the headlines - has become the default. That is not withstanding the lack of journalistic integrity, fair reporting and commitment to the facts, rather than the pushing of preferred narratives.

What replaces it? Influencers, I am afraid
If I'm remembering this correctly from physics class then in math terms this is described as U=C*n*R*T where U is the energy, the constant C varies depending on the degrees of freedom the molecules of the gas have, n is the molar amount of the gas, R is the ideal gas constant, and T is the temperature. From that perspective it seems impossible to raise the pressure without also raising n resulting in a higher U even if you maintained a constant T while you did so?
A proto-measure is whether the software has active users, whether as a library or application or service, etc., and whether internal or external. That's after a substantial initial seed investment. If it still has no active users, it's time to change focus. It it has active users, then assuming it ultimately rolls up into a revenue generator, it must continue receiving funding. This is not a full measure, but it's a foundation.
Fair thought. Though, any link you claim can only be redirected by you and not by us. We cannot point your link to any destination. Only you can choose that.
Don't you think 1400 years is a bit long? If you considered 'native people' to go back that far, you could get all sorts of really strange 'native lands'.

Normally, right of return is for people who were living somewhere, or have parents or grandparents who live somewhere. So it's obviously very strange when that applies to jewish people, who potentially have some ancestors in biblical times that were living in Jordan, but doesn't apply to Palestinians, who had grandparents living there.

To be honest, I have more sympathy for the argument that, yes, Israel is a typical colonial enterprise, but it's also been a while (70+ years), and people have made their lives there, so 2SS makes sense. It seems more consistent with how words like 'native', 'colony', and 'original inhabitants' work everywhere else.
You can easily plan for such events.

What if your house collapses due to some event that is not covered by your insurance and you used all the capital to purchase it? This is as an extreme example as the market dropping 50%.

Surviving market crashes is not rocket science, don't be 100% in stocks. Have a decent emergency fund if you have a family, have some bonds, have a house with decent equity, and don't subscribe to consumerism.
I disagree with "much slower" but I do agree that it's different. It's not about having tired eyes (what do you use to watch videos?), it's about shortening attention span (you get bored and want to switch to something else). Long attention span is good, short attention span is bad. This is why reading books (long form) is better than reading Twitter or Instagram (short form). And this is why getting kids to continue to read is important.
Apple's iPhone Spyware Problem Is Getting Worse
A Subreddit for Dumbphones Is the Smartest Place Online
Self plug, but I've been developing a local AI voice changing VST [1] (bring your own RVC models, or use builtins). It works in DAWs in realtime on modern macs.

[1] https://audio.sunflower.industries
While a kilogram is kilogram, a pound has an accepted definition and plenty of unexpected ones.

Is it a troy pound, a tower pound, a london pound, a metric pound?
Would it be possible to always offer the last 14 days of stats, but only allow a login/access to that data eg 3 or 7 times ?

I wonder if that might fit the average pattern of a casual stats user a bit better (only actually checking the data when asked by the manager) to keep them hooked for a much longer 'wall clock' time and get them to eventually convert (I've been depending on this for half a year now)
It'd be pretty hilarious if GoLand switched to a mobile pricing model where the IDE is free... But you have to use build gems to run things. You get a fixed number of build gems a week then you can buy more fro $9.99 or $19.99.

Your debug gems would recharge after watching a short ad.
Robert Dennard, father of DRAM, is deceased
Largest model railway launches inductive Formula 1 circuit [video]
The room temperature compressed air still has some internal energy, and some of that energy can be converted to work by expanding the air through a turbine. The air at the outlet of the turbine will be really cold. Expanding compressed air through expanders like this is part of how air liquefaction plants operate.
Nicotine use without smoking raises heart rate, constricts blood vessels, raises blood pressure, and remodels the cardiovascular system and individual cells. Those cardiovascular changes are associated with stroke and dementia. It stimulates the mesolimbic dopamine system which causes downregulation of dopamine receptors, addiction, and feeling less good when you aren't ingesting nicotine.

Here is an overview: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8026694/
Riot Games' anti-cheat software will require TPM, Secure Boot on Windows 11 (2021)
So to be certain, using these drivers in subsequent releases should be done with caution.

Are there any plans to add testing for these specific drivers/hardware?
And how exactly should one fight a "war of ideology"? Same way as in Vietnam??
A huge fraction of humans don't have gametes. That definition only works for describing a species, not individuals. That doesn't need debating, he's off in his own corner talking about a completely different metric.
Someone took inspiration from FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition[1] and made their integer query API future proof.

[1] https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
Cat people love their cats.

Unlike dogs, there isn’t a direct human impact to negative behaviors of cats or humans poor management of them. Nobody really cares about birds, and “herding cats” carries the meaning that it does for a reason.
I am deeply sick of "compile and run a program to guess stuff about the environment" as a model. Especially in the context of cross compiling and cmake my patience is totally exhausted.

I'm not convinced it's necessary any more. When a compiler claims to implement c99, it probably does implement c99. Lots of ugly target dependent hackery is now fixed at source by doing more sensible things in the target and/or the target having died off decades ago.

Libuv does horrendous platform specific stuff on targets I don't recognise, in raw C, and it's totally possible to compile it without doing any configure or cmake style nonsense because the platform specific things are in their own source files.

90% of the target specific stuff I can handle by asking the C preprocessor what it's building. The remaining 10% can be specified by editing a header or passing compiler flags or similar.

Right now for C libraries I want to depend on I'm patching the source on import to not need any configure check or magic compiler flags, then building every C file separately into an object with the same invocation, and it is working just fine.
SO corporate has been trying to shoehorn AI into the sites ever since it became the latest buzzword. It's been largely laughably bad and is alienating the community, who don't want it and aren't asking for it.
Similar: https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/tricot
Then the situation would be less bad.

But currently with whatever anti-cheat they're using the amount of cheaters is practically non-existent. I haven't personally seen any weirdness.

A friend of mine managed to get a screen recording of two people doing the grenade exploit before it was fixed.
> There have been other ways of living beforehand and I expect we'll be about to figure another way in the near future.

Or we revert back to serfdom and slavery.
In stark contrast to most GNU/*nix tools, I really liked MS-DOS's edit.com text editor. Unlike emacs or vim or even nano, it didn't have a bunch of invisible shortcut keys, just a Windows-like drop-down menu system (but rendered in DOS).

You could easily browse through the menu hierarchy, but still memorize certain shortcuts that you often use (just like Windows). In later versions you could even use the mouse to select things if you wanted to. It didn't try to force any one particular method onto you, but let you use the input you're most comfortable with.

So many CLI tools are incredibly idiomatic and require you to do something in a very particular way with no on screen hints. Even the help screen is normally hidden behind some key combo. TUI or not, that seems unnecessarily elitist.

I think some of the old telnet MUDs or BBS games are nice to learn from, whether they used helpful text prompts (you are here, this is what you can do) or just rendered graphical menus in ASCII with colors. For some reason I still don't quite understand, games still seem to have more UI focus than productivity apps. Maybe cuz they tend to target the general public instead of B2B users?

Another pattern I really like: In more modern GUI IDEs and editors like Sublime or Jetbrains or VScode, you can usually launch a floating command input bar that will search through available files, commands, settings, etc. That lets you quickly find the thing you want without knowing the key combo for it (like format code, or forking a branch, or turning off word wrap). It would be cool to have a LLM layer in there that could parse natural language (instead of a basic keyword search) and execute commands based on that.
> What should Israel do? Live with Hamas and the 80% of Palestinians who support them?

Giving concessions to the population and offering them an equitable stake in society would go a long way to dissipating support for armed resistance.

It's not a conflict on the same scale but you can look to the resolution of conflict in Northern Ireland for parallels. Denying people their basic chances in life and doing so with the threat of violence it's never going to win people to your side.

At some point you either have to talk to them or kill them all. The situation now is only creating martyrs and enough trauma to fuel the next generation of the cycle.
Why is economics stuff so hard?

Like I swear to god I see variants of this thread almost every other day where someone is like 'i think that this economic thing is broken' and someone else comes along and is like 'no,no, you're just holding it wrong -- The thing you want to use to do this is...'.

And despite witnessing this kind of encounter regularly I'm no more informed about economics. I've taken two first year econ courses and I still don't feel informed about it.

Why is it that all too often economics discussions get further and further away from some objective measurement of reality and turn into semantics arguments over what obscurely named things like M1 and M2 or CPI actually even mean to me anyway?

Is there like an authoritative source that defines all of these things and has a recent dataset of verified data to work work?

Like what's the lib-economy or python package for economic stuff?
Well, okay, I'm not going to contradict your personal experience. But here's what you said in your article:

> It started half a year ago, in September 2023. My CEO asked me how I was measuring productivity. I told him it wasn’t possible. He told me I was wrong. I took offense. It got heated.

> After things cooled off, he invited me to his house to talk things over in person. (We’re a fully remote company, in different parts of the country, so face time takes some arranging.) I knew I couldn’t just blow off the request, so I decided to approach the question from the standpoint of accountability. How could I demonstrate to my CEO that I was being accountable to the org?

So what I knew is that you said you didn't want to do something, you had an argument, he asked you to come to his house, which is not in your home town, to talk things over, and you knew you couldn't just blow off the request, and had to demonstrate your accountability to the organization. True or not, can you see how one might draw the conclusion that you were forced to present yourself to the CEO in his house in order to show that you were going to toe the line?
I stopped smoking cold turkey in 2013 and it wasn’t very hard, but I’ve never moved beyond the feeling of wanting to smoke. It definitely does something to your brain permanently.
Salesperson: You test drive any car on the lot!

You: Why? I already own a 2002 Ford Escape...

I'm not trying to make fun of you, I think you actually have a unique and impressive perspective! I've always hated hearing my voice on answering machines, so if I could choose any voice I'd choose Chris Cornell or Morgan Freeman.
Resilient? Sure. Realistic for anyone with only $10k in assets? Not even remotely. Not in the market we have today. There are too many people who are using debt just to get their basic needs met, let alone something with enough permanence to be considered an asset.
Also, people rely on the feedback to show how helpful their contributions are. The SO economy relies on "karma". If you silo off the view from the production you get a situation where producers are no longer incentivized.
Yes, unfortunately. It's not a rigorous scientific study, but one recent experiment that I think is illuminating:

https://esports.gg/news/valorant/male-valorant-pros-face-sex...

> The experiment showed just how drastically a woman’s voice can impact the score of a player. One male pro played with his normal voice and earned 15 kills with two deaths. When playing Valorant with a female voice, his score almost completely inversed with three kills and 16 deaths after the other players refused to cooperate in the game.

> The pro players also endured being mocked and insulted with sexist slurs. Many will recognize this as the average experience of women in gaming. During their games, one male teammate told a pro to go back to the kitchen. Likewise, another teammate told the female-voiced pro that “all women should just die.”
I thought the gimmick with this would be that it was the prominent rabbit character talking, but it just sounds like a generic female voice assistant.
It's a bit like how Francis Crick, after he left DNA research and went into neuroscience, wrote a book called "The Astonishing Hypothesis" with the premise that the mind is nothing magical but simply the product of all those neurons in your brain, even if we don't understand yet exactly how. Lots of people (including me) thought "well, of course, what's so astonishing about that?", but I guess there are people who still believe the mind is some mystical thing not determined by biology.
Why facial recognition technology makes these campus protests different
My undergraduate thesis project attempted to use homomorphic encryption to create a voting system where any party could verify the final tally count while keeping ballot secrecy.
Yeah I generally agree - kinda like the Hackintosh days. Aside from novelty, it ended up being better to just build what you need from scratch for a lot cheaper, and with better support.

Thanks!
I think you touched on it with #3, but here is my biggest issue with Nix:

nixpkgs

It's a monolithic source tree full of disorganized interdependent "derivations". It's nigh-impossible to find your bearings, and that's before you even think about the bazillion git branches and GitHub PRs.

I started this GitHub issue about 4 years ago: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/93327

The more time goes by, the more convinced I am that all of the problems I have with Nix stem from how tightly integrated everything is in the nixpkgs source tree. I came to NixOS hoping for a package manager; but what I got is something else entirely. I find it incredibly ironic that a package manager whose core feature is isolated reproducible builds, could fail so hard at isolating packages from each other.

The nix language isn't the problem. The problem is the impenetrable novel that was written in it.
An interesting read. Note to the author if you are here: run a spell checker over your post!
I like it. We switched from tfenv from tenv when OpenTofu released and really like to work with it. The additional cool thing - it does not require any dependencies like tfenv did.
Thank you for sharing your opinion! It's not a very commonly held view or intuition that directly voting on policy is a prerequisite for democracy. Of course you can use whatever exotic definitions you want to trick yourself into believing you've won an argument, but it will do nothing in terms of actually creating the type of world you'd like.

I don't think we'll see eye to eye on this and that's okay.